It's Draft Time: Impeachment Edition

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(02-23-2017, 06:25 PM)Dill Wrote: The initial Republican claim was that Democrats were lying to cover up a terror attack. 7 Congressional committees were unable to establish that.  The "lies" you are referring to are just spun out of later hearings.

In the span of 48 hours, Obama and Clinton get different reports. It is a week before they get the actual video of the attack. In the meantime, they say one thing to a foreign diplomat, another to people in-house, perhaps another to families.  None of the "lies" attributed to Clinton are inconsistent with this situation.  You don't necessarily tell a foreign diplomat the same thing you tell a family member, and what you say to anyone may be subject to incoming information.

The Republican method of parsing out "lies" was to compare something said to an Egyptian Diplomat on one day something said to the press on another.  

The Benghazi investigations were, in the history of the US, the finest example of the "gotcha" ethic you were complaining about early. As Rep. McCArthy revealed, the purpose of the faux scandal was to bring down Hillary's numbers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kevin-mccarthys-truthful-gaffe/2015/09/30/f12a9fac-67a8-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.html?utm_term=.395f1a51a1fc  Like whitewatergate, it was a fishing expedition.

As I said: I understand Hill's and others actions and of course it was a gotcha. I'm just of the opinion supported by proof that folks lied. Apparently you think no one did or putting them in quotes make them not lies. She told different folks, different things at the same time. She "lied" to somebody.